Four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory as a deformation of topological BF theory

DOI10.1007/S002200050465zbMATH Open0927.58023arXivhep-th/9705123OpenAlexW3104353858MaRDI QIDQ1296237FDOQ1296237

F. Fucito, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, M. Rinaldi, Alberto Cattaneo, Mauro Zeni, Alessandro Tanzini, M. Martellini

Publication date: 21 July 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classical action for pure Yang--Mills gauge theory can be formulated as a deformation of the topological $BF$ theory where, beside the two-form field $B$, one has to add one extra-field $eta$ given by a one-form which transforms as the difference of two connections. The ensuing action functional gives a theory that is both classically and quantistically equivalent to the original Yang--Mills theory. In order to prove such an equivalence, it is shown that the dependency on the field $eta$ can be gauged away completely. This gives rise to a field theory that, for this reason, can be considered as semi-topological or topological in some but not all the fields of the theory. The symmetry group involved in this theory is an affine extension of the tangent gauge group acting on the tangent bundle of the space of connections. A mathematical analysis of this group action and of the relevant BRST complex is discussed in details.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705123

zbMATH Keywords

deformation of topological BF theoryfour-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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